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South Dakota GOP comes down against House Bill 1305, asks people to call House members for a NO vote on bill.

House Bill 1305, sponsored by State Representative Drew Dennert just earned a sharp rebuke from the South Dakota Republican Party Executive Board this morning, who voted unanimously to oppose the legislation on Sunday.

Why? Partly because according to an e-mail calling for action by the South Dakota Republican Party Central Committee, the GOP noted that the “..measure was introduced without talking with stakeholders,” indicating that the sponsor of the measure took it upon themselves to introduce it without consulting the people it would affect.

SDGOP Chairman Dan Lederman also noted that Constitutional Amendment V, which would have done similar things to the primary process was rejected by South Dakota voters 55-45, and lost in all but three counties in the state.

The party also noted This measure represents an attempt to appease those who wantto allow Democrats and others to pick the Republican candidates. Winston Churchill said it best when he said “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

The e-mail encourages members of the Republican Central Committee to call the House lobby at 773-3851 to encourage their State Representatives to vote NO on the bill when it’s up for a vote today on the House Floor.

These diminish the concept we are a constitutional republic with protections of minorities and minority opinions and make us more a direct democracy, which is a nice way to say mob rule where a small majority can run rough shod over an almost equal sized minority.

Why would I want someone who would vote for the likes of Weiland, Daschle, and Johnson to help pick the Republican nominee? I don’t care who they would want to run on the Republican ballot and anybody with common sense would say their vote doesn’t matter.

why in the holy heck is a republican the prime on this bill? and i see lust and mickelson named on it too, and disanto along with dennert. dennert and brunner’s tourism tax elimination bill was unneccessary enough, this exceeds that.

I did come down on Drew this weekend since he is in my district. He was not going to budge. He did explain his reasoning and thinking process to me, but I still had a major problem with it. I am glad to see the State Party was watching these things, and willing to speak against one of our own.

Listened to committee testimony. Dennert said he is bringing it on behalf of Independents. No one else spoke in support. There was no committee opposition. Haugaard was the only legislator to express concern about misuse of the legislation.

This conversation has now caused me to understand that RINOs are conservative Republicans who refuse to follow the liberal tax and spend policies of the SDGOP Establishment that funds the system of legalized corruption. And both political parties support the premise that big government is always the solution. As Fred already noted, Dennert is not pro-Democrat, he is pro-Independent, a position that crony capitalists will never agree to.

HB 1305 will strengthen the arguments of Open Primaries/jungle primaries outsiders in their campaign in the general. They will be able to point to legislative support for forcing parties – which are private entities – to open their nominating process to non-members. – Dave Roetman, Minnehaha GOP Chair

to me its a constitutional issue – First Amendment freedom of association. If some people don’t want to associate with the GOP they have that right, just like they can decide to not be in Rotary or Jaycees or Lutheran. But if you choose to disassociate from a group, you don’t get to pick who that group’s leaders and representatives are – pretty simple. the people who choose to associate together, get to pick who represents them. To force leaders on an association, chosen by non-associates, erodes an important First Amendment right

PS when did the Constitutional principles become so irrelevant to legislators?